Textile materials intended for sportswear

Abstract

Active sportswear is clothing of certain functions with the aim of ensuring the expected properties of certain sports. An important aspect of sportswear is thermal physiological comfort, especially when sports activities take place in demanding atmospheric conditions (at high or low temperatures) over a long period of time. Wear comfort can often affect athlete‘s achievement. Proper selection of clothing can significantly reduce the dynamic and thermal loads of athletes. Innovations in textile science and technology make it possible to optimize sportswear. There is a lot of investment in technological innovations of textile materials and creations - fibres, yarns, etc. which results in improved performance of sportswear. In addition, much attention is paid to design that also contributes to improving the performance of sportswear, he paper reports on significant achievements in the field of sportswear intended for professional athletes. Various aspects that affect the comfort of clothing, the impact of different types of fibres, yarns and innovative structures of textile fabrics intended for the production of sportswear are discussed. In addition, special emphasis is given to innovations in the field of jerseys with cooling effect.